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Building A Firewood Storage Shed This article is about building a firewood shed. This morning was was cool and a perfect morning to install the roofing. I installed a rubberized membrane [ice and water shield] on the roof sheathing as a redundancy layer under the shingles. This membrane runs up the side wall of the…
Building A Wood shed A customer of mine asked me to construct a wood storage shed for them behind their garage. The firewood is currently being stored against the back of the garage and the lack of gutters has rain water cascading onto the wood pile. This is part 1 of a series on How…
Building A Wood Shed For Firewood Storage This article is part 2 from the first article “How To Build A Wood Shed.” Securing the Rafters This morning I added Simpson hurricane ties to the rafters. Because this wood shed is open and this area in front of it are wide open fields and windy, I…
Steps On Building A Wood Storage Shed: Keeping firewood dry is critical to a successful fire. There is nothing worse than wanting a warm fire in your fireplace or wood stove and finding out that your firewood is wet or damp. What’s even worse is having to shovel a foot of snow off a…
Cedar Tongue And Groove Siding Install On a recent shed project we used Western Red tongue and groove cedar as our siding choice. We chose cedar for the following reasons: Aesthetics: Western Red Cedar tends to compliment any architectural design. It enhance the beauty and elegance of your home and can be used as siding,…
Building A Trash Enclosure Buildings built in cold climates are required to have footings installed below the frost line. In my area that is 48″ deep. This simple small wood storage building is designed to be moved and was built on an existing brick paver patio with no footings. The floor, supports and first 16″…
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